The chapter discusses the role played by labor market institutions in shaping the dynamics
of wages, employment, and unemployment across European countries and the United …

В монографии члена-корреспондента РАН ЖТ Тощенко обосновывается появление
нового социального класса—прекариата, дается объяснение причин его …

This book focuses on the modeling of the transitions in and out of unemployment, given the
stochastic processes that break up jobs and lead to the formation of new jobs, and on the …

France and Spain have similar labour market institutions and their unemployment rates were
both around 8% just before the Great Recession but subsequently that rate has increased to …

Employment protection systems are widely believed to generate distortions in firms' hiring
and firing decisions. However, much less is known about the impact of these regulations on …

We examine the effect of dismissal regulation on productivity in the OECD, using annual
cross-country aggregate data on the stringency of employment protection legislation and …

The simultaneous use of strong employment protection and temporary jobs observed in
many European countries seems contradictory since the former aims at limiting job …

This paper studies the duration pattern of fixed-term contracts and the determinants of their
conversion into permanent ones in Spain, where the share of fixed-term employment is the …

Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has
mushroomed since Lazear's (1990) pioneering study. Having sketched the theoretical …

This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of
aggregate labor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run …